【论文】性别因素对中国高水平英语学习者请求策略的影响---一项对英语学习者英、汉请求策略的对比研究.doc

Acknowledgements I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to those who have offered me all kinds of help in completing this thesis. First, my deepest gratitude goes to my supervisor Professor Chen Xinren, who has been helping me all the way through the design, development and revision of the thesis. He has offered me great help in choosing the present topic, provided constructive suggestions for analyzing the data and taken great pains reading my thesis draft by draft. Without his encouragement and advice, I could not have completed this thesis. My heart-felt thanks also go to Professor Ding Yanren, who equipped me with the basic knowledge in the field of SLA, Professor Wang Wenyu, who taught me how to develop a M.A thesis from the first step of finding an issue till writing up a whole thesis in the seminar, and Doctor Don Snow, whose expert instruction and insightful suggestions in the seminar of thesis writing have contributed a great deal to this thesis. I also owe great thanks to my former foreign teacher, Mr. Chris White. He bought me a very beneficial reference book in the USA. I am also grateful for the subjects who participated in the survey. They include my 25 classmates in the English department of Nanjing University, my friend Liu Jiaqin and her 12 classmates in Liaoning University, my former colleague Li Xiao and his 9 classmates in Ocean University of China, my friend Zhou Na and her 12 classmates in East China Normal University. Without their generous cooperation, I could not have collected the needed data. My thanks should also go to my classmates who provided me with valuable suggestions in choosing this research topic and how to analyze the complicated data during the one-year seminar. Last but not least, my gratitude should also go to my parents for their care and my husband Sun Chengfu for his everlasting spiritual and constant technological support in the process of the data analysis. Without their love, this the